fragrance

[ frey-gruhns ]
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noun
  1. the quality of being fragrant; a sweet or pleasing scent.

  2. perfume, cologne, toilet water, or the like.

Origin of fragrance

1
First recorded in 1660–70; from French, from Late Latin frāgrantia.See fragrant, -ance

synonym study For fragrance

See perfume.

Words Nearby fragrance

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How to use fragrance in a sentence

  • The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

    Davy and The Goblin | Charles E. Carryl
  • Not a zephyr ruffled the leaf of a rose, and a soft breathing fragrance bathed his reposing senses.

  • Vases of flowers diffused their fragrance and expanded their beauty where flowers were never seen to bloom before.

  • The taller buried her face for a moment in the red Jaqueminots and drank in their fragrance.

    The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
  • I frequently used to visit the plantations of nutmegs and cloves, and refresh myself with their balsamic fragrance.

British Dictionary definitions for fragrance

fragrance

fragrancy

/ (ˈfreɪɡrəns) /


nounplural -grances or -grancies
  1. a pleasant or sweet odour; scent; perfume

  2. the state of being fragrant

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